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German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history in ten historic periods ranging from the early modern period to the present. Each section includes an introduction to key historical developments as well as a selection of primary source documents (in German and English), images and relevant maps. All of the materials can be accessed through keyword and author searches. Advanced options also allow searches to be limited and refined.
Tags: 20th-century Germany, architectural history, architecture, art history, documents, early modern Germany, German history, German History in Documents and Images, GHDI, images, maps, modern Germany, photography, translated documents
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 9, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography, words | No Comments »
Sponsered by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project that explores cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Seventeenth Century. Silk Road Seattle provides historical texts, well illustrated web pages on historic cities and architecture and on the traditional culture of Central Asian nomads, extensive annotated bibliographies of resources, an electronic atlas, and a virtual art exhibit drawing on museum collections from around the world.
Tags: architecture, art, art history, Central Asia, cultural history, industrial design, maps, photography, resources, silk road, Silk Road Seattle, trade, University of Washington, urban history, virtual exhibit, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Web resources
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 10, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
The Victoria and Albert Museum has launched a Beta version of Search the Collections taking its online collection from 55,000 object records to over a million. Records have been taken from the V&A’s existing collection, and are in dynamic state of process with new information being added over time. As work on the site continues, the V&A plans to incorporate crowd sourcing, an API, saved searches and additional linking.
Tags: ancient architecture, architectural history, architecture, art, Asian architecture, digital images, image collections, images, maps, photography, search tools, V&A, Victoria and Albert Museum, visual resource collections
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on September 17, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, maps, photography | No Comments »
GeoCommons is a free, web-based service that allows you to create, customize and share interactive maps using your own data. Upload KML files, spreadsheets or utilize the vast amount of datasets already available on the website. The service is easy to use for anyone unfamiliar with more complicated mapping techniques.
Tags: freeware, maps, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on April 30, 2009 in GPS, landscape, maps | 1 Comment »
Outline and Index Map of Atlas of New York City : Manhattan Island (1897). Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
The NYPL has included 2,000 maps from from the New York City Fire Insurance Atlases (1852-1923) in the Google Earth index. These highly detailed maps illustrate individual building structures, lot dimensions, neighborhood zoning and the region’s topography. By incorporating historic collections with Google Earth’s platform, the NYPL provides the curious with a contextual structure for browsing and comparing cartographic documents. Once you’ve downloaded the map index, you can launch Google Earth and chart the development of the built environment in NYC.
For more detailed information about the New York City Fire Insurance Atlases and to download the Google Earth index, visit the NYPL’s website.
Tags: Google Earth, maps, New York, NYPL, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on April 2, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, maps | No Comments »
Case Study house #22, 1960
Pierre Koenig, architect
Julius Schulman, photographer
USC Professor of History and Political Science Philip Ethington has developed two websites confronting the issues that plague urban historical investigations of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: The Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge, completed 2000-2001, examines the city through images and essays, both historical and historiographical, to treat the subject comprehensively. Though somewhat technologically outmoded, the content is viable and includes images ranging from photographs, plans, models, maps, photomontages, and “reflexive index sets,” historic images grafted onto a photograph of the here and now to demonstrate the scope of site history.
The second site of interest, Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1954-2000, uses two forms of narrative to discuss the city’s history in terms of cultural, economic and political landscapes. Yet unfinished, the site presently includes three short essays focusing on the history of Hollywood, aeronautics and the oil industry in Los Angeles complemented by a photographic narrative featuring Klansmen and tire workers alongside those of Hollywood fame and photos of the city’s Case Study houses by Julius Schulman.
Tags: architecture, Case Study Houses, images, Julius Schulman, landscape, Los Angeles, maps, Philip Ethington, photographs, urban historiography, urban history, urbanism, visual studies
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 31, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
1748 Nolli map of Rome is regarded by scholars and cartographers as one of the most essential historical documents of the eternal city. Giambattista Nolli, an architect and surveyor, created the first accurate map of Rome since antiquity and The Interactive Nolli Website allows you to explore Rome’s natural environment, demographics, infrastructure and architecture.
Tags: catography, maps, Rome, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on November 5, 2008 in architectural history, architecture, maps | No Comments »
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